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Cuttings, An Essential Gardening Skill
Article written by Saturday6TM blogger Dave Townsend from Growing the Home Garden
Gardeners are obsessed with one thing ... plants. How to grow the plants, how to increase their production, and (my favorite) how to get more of them! Getting more plants can be as simple as running over to the local nursery and picking out a few choice specimens for the garden. Sometimes the gardener's budget does not cooperate with the desire to bring home those new plants. You've been there, haven't you? That's why knowing how to propagate plants is an essential skill for gardeners to learn.
There are several great ways to propagate plants, including seeds, layering, tissue culture, division and cuttings. There are whole books on all of these propagation areas but for the purpose of this post, let's focus on making cuttings. Cuttings are a vegetative method of propagation where a piece of one plant is used to make another one genetically identical to the original, which can also be called a clone. Cuttings can be taken from various types of wood but is usually best done from the seasonal first-year growth. (i.e., softwood in spring of the first-year growth or semi-ripe in mid to late summer).
While other methods of vegetative plant propagation, like division, layering or tissue culture, can accomplish the same goal, taking cuttings is my preferred method. I've found that cuttings produce a greater number of plants without having to uproot and transplant an already established planting. Not all plants respond well to cuttings and require other methods to propagate. Tissue culture can be difficult; division and layering can't make as many plants (but is necessary to propagate some plants); and seeds don't make a genetically identical plant.
Cuttings can generate whole root systems from just a small piece of a plant. Some plants will grow roots very easily (like willows, which can be rooted in moist soil or even just a jar of water), but others need a little more assistance from the gardener. To root cuttings, you need a sterile soil medium, container, humidity and sometimes rooting hormone. Rooting hormone replicates the natural growth hormones (auxins) found in the plant. (Rooting hormone isn't necessary to root all plants, but I have found that it can speed up the process.) For soil medium, I use either plain sand or an equal part mixture of peat, perlite and vermiculite. Once you have taken a cutting, reduce the number of leaves to about two at the top of the cutting, dip the bottom (cut) end in rooting hormone, then place it in your container of rooting medium deep enough to allow the cutting to remain upright. Then keep it moist until it has rooted. Remember, moist - not soggy. Perennials can root fairly quickly - in as little as a week to three weeks - but shrubs and trees take longer and normally need at least six to eight weeks to root. Sometimes it can take even longer. To help maintain the humidity, you can put a plastic bag tent over your container and mist it with a spray bottle. You want to prevent the leaves from transpiring too much moisture. Sometimes it helps to reduce the leaf size of larger leaved plants to reduce transpiration. Just cut the leaf in half.
What can be rooted from cuttings? A lot! You will have to experiment to find out all the possibilities, but here are some easy-to-root suggestions: hydrangeas, coleus, red twig dogwood, willow, viburnum, salvia, spirea and veronica. Not every cutting will root, so take several at a time. If you end up with more plants than you need, give a plant to a friend or donate the extras to a school garden.


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18 Mad Men Anachronisms Spotted by the Internet
Selectric typewriters, train schedules, the phrase "I am so over you," and more smug busting of Matthew Weiner.
Mad Men showrunner Matthew Weiner's obsession with researching every last period detail has inspired much journalistic awe — and some collegial snark: Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan once quipped, "Now I always weigh the meth on the show to the 100th of a gram." The show is nearly period-perfect and its anachronisms are few, far between, and often debatable — which is why Mad Men obsessives take such obscene delight in nailing them down. Here we salute the insane, anal-retentive, obsessive-compulsive nitpickers who have sifted through every frozen frame of five seasons of television and come up with eighteen tiny anachronisms, from too-modern typefaces to misdirected trains. Go forth and revel in the fact that nothing's perfect. And don't worry about Weiner's feelings; as he once told The New York Times Magazine, "I'm glad that we're held to a high standard, and I'm glad that people get pleasure from picking it apart."
1. Lane Pryce's Oxford English Dictionary (Season three, episode two, "Love Among the Ruins")
Though the OED has been around since the nineteenth century, the three-volume Compact Edition, per New York Times "On Language" columnist Ben Zimmer, was first published in 1987. Poor Lane. Even his bookshelf was living a lie.
2. The Broadway Limited train line ("Love Among the Ruins")
Message boards on the Trains magazine forum lit up when Don mentioned taking the Broadway Limited from Ossining to Grand Central. In 1963, the Broadway Limited was operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad and therefore went to Penn Station. (PRR didn't merge with the New York Central Railroad until 1968.) "The character Don Draper would not make that mistake. I'm a fan of the show and am very disappointed with the writers," wrote one displeased commentator.
3. Lucky Strike pitch (Season one, episode one, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes")
Ad agency CEO Adam Hanft at the idea that Don Draper would have carte blanche to pitch his ideas without running them by Bert and Roger: "There's no way that management would ever walk into a big client meeting—in this case, for Lucky Strike cigarettes—without seeing the creative work in advance," he wrote in Slate.
4. Saturday Night Football (Season four, episode one, "Public Relations")
The celebrity face of Mad Men anachronism-hunting is news anchor Brian Williams, who used his NBC blog to question whether Don could have been watching a nighttime NFL game on TV in 1964. Sure enough, prime-time football didn't start until 1970. And the game's slow-motion replay? First tested on an NFL game by CBS in 1965.
5. The crash cymbal (Season three, episode three, "My Old Kentucky Home")
While the rest of us were gawking at Roger's blackface performance of "My Old Kentucky Home," one Vulture reader noticed that his garden-party drummer was using a crash cymbal from the future. A conversation with a Zildjian rep confirmed that the shiny finish on the instrument wasn't available until the seventies, while its "K" logo brought the timetable up to the eighties.
6. Betty Draper's sorority (Season one, episode four, "The Ladies Room")
While on the psychiatrist's couch, Betty mentioned that her neighbor's "jealous" attitude brought her back to her sorority days. However, the character attended Bryn Mawr, which has no sororities. It's one of "two big blunders" that showrunner Matt Weiner admitted himself.
7. "The medium is the message." (Season one, episode six, "Babylon")
Weiner has also copped to the fact that Joan wouldn't have been quoting media theorist Marshall McLuhan in 1960. (The phrase was popularized in his 1964 treatise Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.) "Unless she was in his class in Canada, she wouldn't have known," he said. Of course, now we're envisioning McLuhan busting into the scene, Annie Hall–style, to clear that up.
8. W.E.B. Griffin books (Season three, episode ten, "The Color Blue")
During this revelatory episode, a three-volume collection of Griffin's "The Corps" series (written in 1986, 1987, and 1990, respectively) can be glimpsed over Betty's shoulder. The military novelist's official website now boasts of the error, which was discovered, oddly enough, by George W. Bush speechwriter and RedState.com founder Joshua S. Trevino.
9. "1960, I am so over you." (Season one, episode ten, "Long Weekend")
Joan might have been over 1960, but she wouldn't have been, as she said, so over it, according to language columnist Ben Zimmer. Weiner has defended this line (which was contentious in the writer's room) by citing the 1948 Cole Porter song "So in Love." Zimmer argues: "Scholars of semantics might disagree, seeing a nuance between Porter's use of the adverb so, which quantifies the extent to which the character is in love, and the later Generation X-style spin on the word as an intensifier meaning 'extremely' or 'completely' without any comparison of relative degree."
10. The Sterling Cooper sign
Font designer Mark Simonson is a big Mad Men fan, and apparently pays more attention to typeface than the props department does. In an astonishingly eagle-eyed 2008 takedown on his blog, Simonson pointed out that the sign on the Sterling Cooper building is Gil Sans, which was not in popular use in the U.S. until the seventies. Other future fonts he spotted on the show, mainly in shots of print ads: Fenice (1980), Balmoral (1978), Amazone (1958), ITC Kabel (1975), Bookman Old Style (1989), Zapfino (1998), and Gotham (2002).
11. The Swiss Bank Tower
EW commenter Michael Grinspan observed that the windows of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce look out onto the Swiss Bank Tower. That building is indeed adjacent to the Time Life Building. But it didn't exist until 1990.
12. "I'm in a very good place right now." (Season three, episode three, "My Old Kentucky Home")
If Peggy had been talking about the Sterling Cooper office, this line would fit right into 1963. But she said it after smoking marijuana and was clearly talking about a state of mind. "Its modern usage is metaphorical, having to do with spirit and development," wrote New Republic linguist John McWhorter, who says he first heard the phrase used by a New Age acolyte in 1994.
13. "I know you have to be on the same page as him." (Season three, episode seven, "Seven Twenty Three")
Another one from Zimmer: The OED traces the idiom "to be on the same page (as someone else)" to 1979. First known usage? "A New York Times sports article from that year about the NFL says, 'it takes a long time for everybody to get on the same page as far as the rules are concerned.'" (For Zimmer's handy video montage of anachronistic dialogue, click here.)
14. Neediness
Historian Benjamin Schmidt decided to analyze Mad Men's dialogue with the Google Books Ngram viewer and concluded that the most glaring error was the frequency of the phrase "I need." "To say 'I need to' so much is a surprisingly modern practice: books, television shows, and movies from the 1960s use it at least ten times less often, and many never use it all," he wrote in The Atlantic. The less urgent "ought to" would be the more accurate term. Of course, Don isn't the kind of guy who feels he ought to do anything. He is, however, a man of many, many needs.
15. Fallout shelter sign (Season one, episode ten, "Long Weekend")
The moderator of the Cold War–themed Facebook page All Things Atomic captured an image of a fallout shelter sign in the hospital where Roger is treated for his season-one twin-induced heart attack. That sign appeared a year too early; the first ones were posted in 1961.
16. Radio Dylan (Season two, episode eleven, "The Jet Set")
Peggy's comment that she'd heard Bob Dylan on the radio inspired a fascinating, if somewhat inconclusive, discussion on the fan site Basket of Kisses. The episode is set in fall 1962, before Dylan produced any singles, and shortly after the release of his none-too-successful debut album. However, since Dylan was a well-established Greenwich Village folkie, it's possible that forward-thinking Manhattan disc jockeys would have given him airplay.
17. IBM Selectric typewriters (Season one)
Here's one that actually happened with Matt Weiner's blessing. The typewriters in the 1960 Sterling Cooper office were a year ahead of their time; the Selectric model was introduced in 1961. On the season-one DVD commentary, Weiner explained that the 1960 typewriters were difficult to obtain, hard to repair, and would have required a doozy of a sound-editing job to re-create the manual carriage returns. So he fudged it.
18. Telephone connectors
According to ShareTV's Mad Men trivia board, selected telephones on the show "are shown with RJ-type modular connectors, which were not introduced until the mid-1970s." Seriously? If that's the best nitpickers can do, then congratulations, Mad Men props department: You win.

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Poquonnock Bridge Fire District struggles to reduce costs
Groton - With a budget due for a districtwide vote in May, some members of the Poquonnock Bridge Fire District Board of Directors continued their calls Thursday for major cuts to bring taxes in line with those in other districts.
From where those budget reductions will come, however, remains the question.
"It's like government - it's pretty out of control. Without cuts, we'll go bankrupt," said board member Ron Yuhas. "We're looking at the big picture. We have to do something. How much can you take from the taxpayer?"
Yuhas said he's paying $1,100 in fire district taxes, as much as someone with a $1 million home in another part of town.
Yuhas' remarks followed a report from Brian Rolfe, an auditor who said the district needs to put away $1 million a year to keep up with the cost of post-employment benefits, or "it's not going to take long for the district to be pretty insolvent."
Poquonnock Bridge, with the town's only fully paid staff and most active fire department, has the largest fire district tax, at 5.9 mills and a $4.6 million budget. It is one of nine districts in town.
The board has already taken a step to eliminate funding for public education and is considering removal of a districtwide fire alarm system that board member Alan Ackley said is antiquated and costs the district as much as $100,000 a year to maintain.
No vote was taken on the alarm system measure Thursday, but Poquonnock Bridge Fire Chief Todd Paige said it would take two years and cost $182,000 to remove the system, which he called "well-maintained and very reliable."
The system, paid for in part with funding from three other departments, runs 30 miles and includes 263 alarms, including 131 street pull-box alarms, Paige said.
Meanwhile, the district is still trying to figure out what to do with a stationary ladder truck that was pulled from service in 2011 when it failed a maintenance inspection. The district has declined to pay the $4,500 cost it would take to get an estimate on the cost for repairs.
The city fire department had been responding automatically to all calls with their ladder until last month, when City Mayor Marian Galbraith said the city could no longer afford to assume the costs. The city has asked for an initial payment of $57,000.
A mutual aid agreement remains in place.
Galbraith attended Thursday's meeting and said the city remains open to an agreement in which the district pays for maintenance and capital costs associated with the use of the ladder. Board President Chris Clark said he planned to speak with Galbraith at a later date.
Groton resident Christine Conley told the board that living in a third-story apartment now has her nervous, wondering if the department carried ladders "long enough to reach me."
Salaries for firefighters also remains an issue. The nine-member board's vote to rescind a 10-year contract with the firefighters union, voted on by the board when it was still five members, is the source of a union grievance.
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The Last Day
Lesson 25 of 27
Objective: SWBAT ask and answer questions about key details in a literary text.
Context and Overview
Today, we move forward with the story of Charlotte's Web by reading the chapter, "Last Day." We will analyze the chapter with text dependent questions and by looking closely at a particular quote.
We will also meet in a Socratic Seminar for discussion. Then, students will have the opportunity to respond in writing to synthesize their understandings. Last, they will have a chance to share those responses with their peers.
Opening Activity
After sharing the objective from the rug, I turn to my students and ask, "What Makes A Good Friend?" This the heart of the matter in discussing this chapter today, and it's a key theme in the book as a whole. I have them partner up with their carpet partner first before a few of them share out loud.
I take their responses and record them on a Chart. In this way, I am validating their knowledge and making it public. I can also reference the chart if I need to during the lesson.
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Reading: Last Day
Now we are reading the chapter, "Last Day," with Text Dependent Questions. These questions hone in on Wilbur's transformation in his perception about Charlotte and what Charlotte now means to him. I make sure to make this explicit: Why Would Wilbur Give His Life For Charlotte?
Wilbur's character is that of a child relying on Fern and Charlotte as mother figures for guidance and protection. It is Charlotte's love and guidance that helps him see past Charlotte's exterior: Charlotte Saves Wilbur's Life...Wilbur Changes His mind
I stop reading and asking questions on page 165. I don't want to overwhelm my students with too many questions. I want to make sure they are still experiencing joy in reading. For the rest of the chapter, the students read along with E.B. White.
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I gather the students on the carpet again to discuss the friendship between Wilbur and Charlotte. I review the rules for participation and remind of the process to hand-off to one another in discussing this idea.
I proceed by drawing my students' attention to the quote on page 164. Wilbur asks Charlotte why he did what she did for him, and this is what Charlotte states: "You have been my friend."
I take a few moments to analyze What does Charlotte mean?
While this quote is not fully understood by my students, I am impressed by two students who attempt to tackle it. In analyzing text, it helps to be prepared with follow up questions, so instead of replying to the second student with the question, "Do you think Charlotte wants to die?" a better question would have been "Why do you say that?" Additionally, "What have you read so far that makes you think that way?"
Questions that ask students to probe their thinking and redirect them back to the text are helpful to keep the conversation moving.
For my students to feel comfortable about this process, I have posted in my classroom two charts my students can reference if they need to remind themselves of our expectations:
I am attaching a document that details fully how I implement Socratic Seminar in my classroom in case you'd like to know more: Socratic Seminar Rules.
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We continue to further analyze the text. Now students are seated at their desks with the quote from page 164: "You have been my friend..." I want them to continue looking at it closely as I strive to make this concept more concrete for them and give them other/more opportunities for critical thinking. Also, I want them to become comfortable with analyzing text on this level.
I have them Read The Quote and then I ask them to highlight and underline what they find interesting and/or resonates with them. For example, this student likes this Line.
My students need as much practice with academic language as I can give them, so, after they finish highlighting, I ask them to pair share with each other about what they what they highlighted and why.
As they keep on reading and highlighting, I walk and monitor their engagement and ask them about what they are finding that is of interest to them and why. Here is the response of one student: Highlighted, You Have Been My Friend.
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Responding To Quote
I am taking the lines, "You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing." from the quote and I am having them respond to it in writing in this way:
- Do you agree with Charlotte that is being a friend is a great thing? Why or why not?
- Would you like Charlotte as a friend why or why not?
The students are pasting the quote in their journals and then responding to the questions. I am walking making sure they are setting up their journals properly by writing their response underneath the quote. Then I walk around and give support in asking questions, in giving support with spelling, lending support with rereading part of the quote and/or restating the objective again.
Here are some work samples:
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Sharing Whole Group
Now my students get the opportunity to share their work with their peers on the carpet:
- I Agree About A Friend Being A Great Thing...
- I Think Being A Friend Is Great Because...
- Why Is Being A Friend A Great Thing?
Then students provide feedback to the speakers. I have taught how to give speakers feedback about the content of their work using the following framework:
- Two stars: Two different students tell specifically what they liked about the content of the work.
- A wish: Another student tells specifically how they wish the writing can be improved.
This time on the carpet also helps to revisit the objective and declare whether we met it or not.


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DENVER – Semyon Varlamov preferred his play do his talking, and it spoke volumes for the Colorado Avalanche.
Varlamov made 33 saves and Ryan O'Reilly had a goal and scored in the shootout as the Avalanche beat the New Jersey Devils 2-1 on Thursday night.
Matt Duchene also scored in the shootout for the Avalanche, who have won three straight—with the last two thanks in large part to the play of their reticent goaltender.
"I hate talking about myself. Ask Patrick," Varlamov said, deferring to coach Patrick Roy.
Colorado didn't need much offence with Varlamov in net. After stopping 46 shots in a 3-2 overtime win in Chicago on Tuesday, Varlamov had another strong game against the Devils. He made five saves on a power play early in the third and then made another on Patrik Elias' point-blank shot from the slot with about 13 minutes left.
The Avalanche nearly took a 2-0 lead on Duchene's wrister moments later, but Schneider made the save.
Varlamov had five saves in overtime and then stoned Elias and Adam Henrique in the shootout.
"I got a guy lying on his stomach and I couldn't finish it," Elias said.
Roy had no problem praising his goalie.
"I like the effort we had from our goalie. He made some great saves," Roy said. "We put a lot on our goalie and our goalie has been phenomenal."
Cory Schneider stopped 37 shots and Andrei Loktionov scored for the Devils, who had their two-game winning streak stopped.
The Devils are 0-8 in shootouts this season, with Schneider losing half of those. New Jersey has lost 12 straight shootouts dating to last season.
Schneider couldn't end the drought after keeping his team in the game for the first two periods.
"I don't know what it is right now, I'm not coming up with the saves in the shootout," he said after his fourth shootout loss of the season. "When you're not getting wins from it and you're leaving points on the table, it matters."
The Avalanche played without centre Paul Stastny (leg) and defenceman Cory Sarich (back) for the second straight game. Roy chose to dress just 11 forwards and go with seven defencemen against the Devils.
O'Reilly, double-shifting on the fourth line, opened the scoring at 8:55 of the first. He took a pass from behind the net from Patrick Bordeleau and beat Schneider with a high snap shot from the slot. It was his team-leading 18th of the season.
"We ran a cycle play after Malone kept the puck in," O'Reilly said. "Malone did that and Bordy saw me alone out front and I got the shot off quick."
Colorado held a 13-2 shot advantage in the second period and controlled play for most of the first 40 minutes. Things changed in the third when New Jersey found its legs and put 18 shots on Varlamov.
"The way we played in the third, it seemed like they couldn't play with us," Elias said. "It was like two different games."
The Devils tied it at 1 when Loktionov beat Varlamov with a slap shot from the right circle at 8:59.
Colorado had two good chances late in the third, but Schneider made a save on John Mitchell and Nathan MacKinnon shot wide of the net.
New Jersey's Steve Bernier nearly scored right after that when his shot skipped through the crease.
NOTES: Duchene celebrated his 23rd birthday Thursday. … The Devils activated Elias and C Jacob Josefson from IR and assigned F Mike Sislo to Albany of the AHL … Colorado sent G Sami Aittokallio to Lake Erie of the AHL. Aittokallio served as Varlamov's backup while Jean-Sebastien Giguere dealt with back spasms.


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A team of engineers out of Stanford is introducing a truly tiny wireless cardiac device to demonstrate that, thanks to a little ingenuity and impressive math, all medical implants may soon be powered wirelessly.
Which means that devices such as pacemakers, which owe the majority of their bulk to the battery, are about to get a whole lot smaller.
Head researcher Ada Poon, who earlier this year showed off a proof-of-concept, wirelessly powered device small enough to propel itself through the bloodstream, says the main achievement with the cardiac device is that it can be implanted on the surface of the heart -- a full 5 centimeters inside the chest -- and still be within reach of wireless power transmission.
The researchers describe the implant -- contained in a cube 0.8 millimeters on a side that could fit on the head of a pin -- in the journal Applied Physics Letters. In addition to making the cardiac device significantly smaller than a pacemaker, using radio-wave power would also eliminate the surgeries currently required to replace batteries.
"Wireless power solves both challenges," Poon, assistant professor of electrical engineering, said in a school news release.
Her device relies on both inductive and radiative transmission of power, using a transmitter to send radio waves to a coil of wire inside the body. The radio waves produce sufficient current in the coil to power small devices.
As discussed when she introduced her self-propelled device small enough to swim through the bloodstream, Poon and her team needed to overcome a pretty major hurdle.
To use small coils, they needed higher frequencies (the relationship between wave frequency and antenna size being inverted), but mathematical models hold that high frequency radio waves don't penetrate deep enough into human tissue to power implants. Crunching the numbers, Poon and her team found that high frequency signals actually travel further than previously thought.
"In fact, to achieve greater power efficiency, it is actually advantageous that human tissue is a very poor electrical conductor," said her lab assistant, Sanghoek Kim. "If it were a good conductor, it would absorb energy, create heating, and prevent sufficient power from reaching the implant."
After revising the models, they found that power can transfer through human tissue at up to 1.7 billion cycles per second, which they say is far higher than previously thought, and which allows them to increase power transfer 10 times beyond earlier devices -- which also means they can shrink the receiving antenna by a factor of 10 as well.
They say that at the optimal frequency, a millimeter-radius coil can generate more than 50 microwatts of power. To put this into context, one recently demonstrated pacemaker requires just 8 microwatts.
While Poon's tech is admittedly futuristic, she has applied for a patent on the antenna structure, and we'll continue following her progress.


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Carly Rae Jepsen has joined rockers Train by pulling out of a slot at the upcoming Boy Scouts of America Jamboree as part of a protest against the organisation's ban on gay members.
The singer had been due to headline the West Virginia event in July (13) alongside Train, but the band cancelled its slot to take a stand against the Boy Scouts' policy which forbids openly gay or transgender candidates from joining.
Jepsen has now followed the group's lead and vowed to boycott the event unless changes are made.
In a series of posts on Twitter.com, she writes, "As an artist who believes in equality for all people, I will not be participating in the Boy Scouts of America Jamboree this summer... I always have and will continue to support the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community on a global level... and stay informed on the ever changing landscape in the ongoing battle for gay rights in this country and across the globe."
Other stars who have previously urged Boy Scouts officials to reverse the policy include Neil Patrick Harris, George Takei and Ellen DeGeneres.


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BASKETBALL: Patton passes 1,000 as Tigers pound Perry
WAYNESFIELD — Waynesfield-Goshen junior Kaylee Patton needed 16 points Thursday night to eclipse the 1,000 point mark in her varsity girls basketball career.
And she needed less than two quarters to do it.
Patton passed the mark with a reverse layup with 1:37 left in the half, then went on to score a team-high 24 points to lead the Tigers to a 56-40 win over the Perry Commodores in the Northwest Central Conference opener for both teams.
"It's amazing," Kaylee Patton said. "My teammates really help me out. They hit some outside shots and that let me get to the inside."
Officials stopped the game as Patton went to the sideline and hugged her father and coach Ted Patton and her teammates.
"A lot of hard work went into that," Ted Patton said. "I was glad to see that. It paid off — a lot of hours in the gym."
At halftime, she joined fellow 1,000-point-club members Lisa Patton Bruggeman (her sister), Candy Day VanBurskirk, Kara Doty Springer and Brittany Lament at mid-court.
Bruggeman holds the all-time scoring record of 1,114 points. That mark is likely to be eclipsed by her younger sister this season, a fact that comes up at family gatherings.
"There are some words exchanged," Kaylee Patton said with a laugh.
Lost in the party atmosphere of the celebration was the fact Patton's reverse layup had given the Tigers a 20-point lead.
Patton scored the Tigers' first nine points and 13 total in the first quarter as W-G used a 13-2 run to take a 19-7 lead in the first quarter.
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Said Ted Patton, "I think the adrenaline was really high when it happened and I think we came out after halftime and just never got into the flow of the defense and the stuff we wanted to do."
In addition to her 24 points, Patton pulled down seven rebounds, dished out seven assists and collected six steals.
Sydney Buffenbarger and Rebecca Stephens added eight points apiece.
The win lifted W-G to 2-3 on the season and 1-0 in the NWCC.
Perry fell to 0-3 overall and 0-1 in the conference.


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How do I know if I qualify for bariatric surgery?
Patients should have either:
Other common guidelines include:
Is bariatric surgery right for me?
Talk with your surgeon about the different surgical treatments, as well as the benefits and risks.
Bariatric surgery is not cosmetic surgery.
Bariatric surgery does not involve the removal of adipose tissue (fat) by suction or surgical removal.
The patient must commit to long-term lifestyle changes, including diet and exercise, which are key to the success of bariatric surgery.
Problems after surgery are rare, but corrective procedures may be required.
How long do I have to stay in the hospital?
It varies from person to person. Generally, the hospital stay for gastric banding is typically outpatient to an overnight stay. The stay for gastric bypass is typically is 2-3 days. The hospital stay for the sleeve gastrectomy is typically 1-2 days.
What is the long-term success of bariatric surgery?
For people suffering from morbid obesity, bariatric surgery can be a powerful tool. For the surgery to be effective long term, lifestyle changes must be made. Through lifestyle changes, such as regular exercise and a healthy food plan, many patients are able to make a long-term change for better health.
What is morbid obesity?
Morbid obesity is a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 40 or more, which is roughly equal to 100 pounds or more over ideal body weight. The disease of morbid obesity interferes with basic physical functions such as breathing or walking. Long-term effects of the disease include shorter life expectancy, serious health consequences in the form of weight-related health problems (co-morbid conditions) such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease, and a lower quality of life with fewer economic and social opportunities.
What causes morbid obesity?
The causes of morbid obesity are multiple and complex. Despite conventional wisdom, it is not simply a result of overeating. Research has shown that, in many cases, significant, underlying causes of morbid obesity are genetic, environmental, and social. Studies have demonstrated that, once the problem is established, efforts such as dieting and exercise programs have a limited ability to provide effective long-term relief.
What is a co-morbid condition?
There are two definitions for a co-morbid condition: the presence of one or more disorders or diseases in addition to a primary disorder or disease; or, the presence of a disorder or disease that is caused by or otherwise related to another condition in the same patient. The primary disease of morbid obesity can lead to several co-morbid conditions.
What is bariatric surgery?
Bariatric surgery is a procedure designed to make the stomach smaller so the patient feels satisfied with less food. It is intended for people who are 100 pounds or more overweight (with a Body Mass Index of 40 or greater) and who have not had success with other weight loss therapies such as diet, exercise, medications, etc. A person with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 35 or greater and one or more co-morbid conditions also may qualify for bariatric surgery.
What is Body Mass Index (BMI)?
BMI is a measure used to index a person's height and weight. BMI allows healthcare professionals and patients to better understand health issues associated with a specific weight classification (classifications such as obesity and morbid obesity).
What are the complications and risks associated with bariatric surgery?
As with any surgery, there are immediate and long-term complications and risks. Possible risks can include, but are not limited to:
What are the possible side effects of bariatric surgery?
Side effects include:
What is the difference between laparoscopic, or minimally invasive, surgery and an open procedure?
Open surgery involves the surgeon creating a long incision to open the abdomen and operating with "traditional" medical instruments. Laparoscopic, or minimally invasive, surgery is an approach that allows the surgeon to perform the same procedure using several small incisions, a fiber-optic camera, video monitor, and long-handled instruments. Learn more about the differences, as well as why your surgeon may recommend a minimally invasive technique but switch to an open one.
Why would I have an open procedure?
The decision to perform minimally invasive or open surgery is made by your surgeon before the operation. For some patients, the laparoscopic, or minimally invasive, technique cannot be used due to dense scar tissue from prior abdominal surgery. Also, the inability to see organs and/or bleeding during the operation can cause your surgeon to switch from minimally invasive to open surgery during your operation.
What is Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery?
Roux-en-Y (pronounced ROO-en-why) gastric bypass surgery is the most popular bariatric surgery in the United States. In this procedure, the surgeon creates a small stomach pouch and then constructs a "bypass" of some of the small intestine. The smaller stomach pouch restricts the amount of food the patient can comfortably eat, and the bypass decreases the number of nutrients and calories absorbed.
What is a gastric banding procedure?
Gastric banding is a purely restrictive surgical procedure in which a silicone band is placed around the uppermost part of the stomach. The band is adjustable and can be periodically tightened or loosened depending on the patient's needs.
How successful is bariatric surgery?
Studies show that bariatric surgery can effectively improve and resolve many co-morbid conditions. A review of more that 22,000 bariatric surgery patients showed:
Do I qualify for insurance coverage for the surgery?
Because every insurance policy is unique, it's important that you thoroughly understand your Certificate of Coverage to know exactly what is and isn't covered through your plan.
What is included in the qualifying process?
The qualification process includes a series of tests with your bariatric surgeon. You also will meet with a nutritionist, psychologist, and other support staff members in sessions leading up to surgery. Each healthcare professional will help you prepare for the changes and challenges that lie ahead.
What are the routine tests before bariatric surgery?
Certain basic tests typically are performed:
Other tests that may be requested include:
What impact do my medical conditions have on the decision for bariatric surgery, and how can my medical problems affect risk?
Medical problems, such as serious heart or lung problems, can increase the risk of any surgery. On the other hand, many serious medical conditions may improve or resolve after successful bariatric surgery.
What can I do to prepare for surgery?
Bariatric surgery is like other major abdominal surgery. You can best prepare by knowing the benefits and risks of surgery, and by closely following your doctor's instructions.
What is type 2 diabetes and how is it affected by bariatric surgery?
Type 2 diabetes is a long-term metabolic disorder where the body produces insulin, but resists it. Insulin is necessary for the body to utilize sugar.
What is high blood pressure (hypertension) and how is it affected by bariatric surgery?
Excess body weight is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, elevated cholesterol, and high blood pressure. These conditions can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and heart and kidney damage. Bariatric surgery reduces excess body weight over time, which decreases strain on the heart.
What is high cholesterol and how is it affected by bariatric surgery?
High cholesterol is a disorder of lipids—the fat-like substances in the blood. A common form of dyslipidemia is hyperlipidemia (or high cholesterol), the condition that exists when someone has too much of certain lipids in the blood. As these lipids build up inside the artery walls, harmful scar tissue and other debris begins thickening and hardening the walls. Long-term, this can lead to heart disease and high blood pressure.
What is sleep apnea and how is it affected by bariatric surgery?
Obstructive sleep apnea is when breathing suddenly stops because soft tissue in the back of the throat collapses and closes during sleep. Morbid obesity can cause sleep apnea and other respiratory problems that may result in chronic fatigue.
What is acid reflux or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and how is it affected by bariatric surgery?
Acid reflux, also known as gastroesophageal reflux disease, is injury to the esophagus caused by chronic exposure to stomach acid. It is a serious disease that can cause esophagitis, Barrett's esophagus, and esophageal cancer (adenocarcinoma).
What is the relationship between morbid obesity and cancer?
Morbid obesity may put you at a higher risk for several types of cancer, such as colon, breast, and kidney cancer. In 2003, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine estimated that obesity could account for:
What is depression and how is it affected by bariatric surgery?
Depression is an illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts. It affects the way a person eats, sleeps, thinks, and feels. There are many reasons people with morbid obesity experience depression. Emotional health goes hand in hand with physical health. Lifestyle improvements and renewed health can help resolve depression. Weight loss, combined with counseling, can be very helpful in improving mental health.
What is osteoarthritis and how is it affected by bariatric surgery?
Osteoarthritis is one of the most common forms of arthritis. Known as the wear-and-tear kind of arthritis, osteoarthritis is a chronic condition in which there is a breakdown of joint cartilage. For anyone who is living with morbid obesity, the excess body weight placed on joints, particularly knees and hips, results in rapid wear and tear, and pain caused by inflammation. Bariatric surgery can reduce much of this weight over a long period of time and can be very effective in treating osteoarthritis.
What is stress urinary incontinence and how is it affected by bariatric surgery?
Among women, morbid obesity is a risk factor for stress urinary incontinence, or uncontrollable urine loss. A large, heavy abdomen and relaxation of the pelvic muscles due to morbid obesity may cause the valve on the urinary bladder to weaken, leading to leakage of urine with coughing, sneezing, or laughing. Bariatric surgery has been found to improve stress urinary incontinence. Less weight is placed on the bladder, and other physical changes take place to improve this condition.
What is reproductive health and how is it affected by bariatric surgery?
Reproductive health can be a concern for women struggling with morbid obesity. Issues such as infertility (the inability or reduced ability to produce children) and menstrual irregularities may occur due to morbid obesity. Fertility issues include possible miscarriage, reduced success with fertility treatments, and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Additionally, women living with morbid obesity are more likely to have children with certain birth defects. A recent study of women following gastric bypass surgery showed improvement of multiple clinical problems related to infertility and PCOS.
How can I deal with my fear of surgery?
The fear of surgery is not irrational or abnormal; in fact, it's very common. Bariatric surgery creates a smaller stomach pouch and, depending on the procedure, may shorten the digestive tract—all while the patient is under general anesthesia. If you have concerns, consider the following:
And remember, you'll have a team of healthcare professionals dedicated to your best possible care.
How does bariatric surgery change my body?
For people who have spent years living with morbid obesity, bariatric surgery can transform their lives. However, it's important to be prepared for all aspects of the treatment. Surgery changes your body by creating a smaller stomach pouch. Learn more about the different types of bariatric procedures.
After the surgery, what support will I receive in adjusting to new daily habits?
A typical comprehensive bariatric program will consist of a combination of the following healthcare professionals: a program coordinator, psychologist, dietician, exercise physiologist, and other healthcare professionals. Each expert is dedicated to providing support for bariatric patients both before and after surgery. Check with your program to find out about support groups that can be helpful in adjusting to new daily habits.
Can I get pregnant after bariatric surgery?
Most doctors recommend that women wait at least one year after the surgery before a pregnancy. Approximately one year postoperatively, your body should be fairly stable (from a weight and nutrition standpoint), and you should be able to carry a normally nourished fetus. Consult your surgeon as you plan for pregnancy.
What about postoperative pain and discomfort?
Many people think bariatric surgery will be followed by a long and painful recovery period. However, most patients report experiencing only discomfort and soreness rather than pain. Recovery does, however, vary from patient to patient.
How long is recovery?
As with any major surgery, there will be a recovery period. Remember that this is a necessary step, and the better care you take during recovery, the more quickly you'll return to normal activity.
Recovery time varies from patient to patient.
One study found laparoscopic gastric bypass patients spent an average of two days in the hospital and were able to return to work after 21 days.
One study found laparoscopic gastric bypass patients spent an average of two days in the hospital and were able to return to work after 21 days.
What will my life be like after the surgery?
Bariatric surgery is not a quick fix. It's an ongoing journey toward transforming your health through lifestyle changes. After surgery, you will feel satisfied and fuller with less food. Positive changes in your body, your weight, and your health may occur, if you maintain the diet and exercise routines recommended by your bariatric program.
How often will I be able to eat?
After the initial recovery period, most patients are instructed to eat 1/4 cup, or 2 ounces, of food per meal. As time goes on, you can eat more (as instructed by your medical team). Most people can eat approximately 1 cup of food per meal (with 4 ounces of protein) a year or more post surgery.
When can I go back to my normal activity level?
Your ability to resume pre-surgery levels of activity depends on your physical condition, the nature of the activity, and the type of bariatric surgery you had. Many patients return to normal levels of activity within three to six weeks of surgery.
How much exercise is needed after bariatric surgery?
Exercise is an important part of success after surgery. You may be encouraged to begin exercising, limited only by discomfort, about two weeks after surgery. The type of exercise depends on your overall condition, but the long-term goal is to get 30 minutes of exercise three or more days each week.
Is there any difficulty in taking medications?
Most pills or capsules are small enough to pass through the new stomach pouch. At first, your doctor may suggest that medications be taken in crushed or liquid form. As a general rule, ask your surgeon before taking any medication.
What is "dumping syndrome?"
Eating simple sugars (such as sugar, honey, and corn syrup) or high-fat foods can cause dumping syndrome in patients who have had gastric bypass surgery. This occurs when these products, which have a small particle size, are "dumped" from the stomach into the intestine at a rapid rate. Water is pulled into the intestine from the bloodstream to dilute the sugar load. This flush of water causes symptoms that can include diarrhea, rapid heart rate, hot flashes or sweating and clammy skin, and dizziness.
What is the long-term follow-up schedule?
Band patients need to work with their surgeons to have their band adjusted several times during the first 12 to 18 months after surgery. Bypass patients typically see their surgeons for three to five follow-up appointments the first year, then once per year thereafter. Over time, gastric bypass patients will need regular checks for anemia (low red blood cell count) and vitamin B12, folate, and iron levels.
How can I find a support group?
Support groups give patients an excellent opportunity to talk about personal issues. Most patients learn, for example, that bariatric surgery will not resolve personal relationship issues. Most bariatric surgeons who frequently perform bariatric surgery will tell you that ongoing support after surgery helps to achieve the greatest level of success for their patients. Patients help keep each other motivated, celebrate small victories together, and provide perspective on the everyday successes and challenges that patients generally experience.


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Great post Kevin. I'd add nothing to the metrics themselves, but it's probably worth recording metrics from a second run with warm caches.
Like all good ideas, simplicity itself. Added to my stock of handy scripts and temnplates. Thanks Kevin
You need to be quite careful when optimizing queries to ensure that your performance testing is fair. Clearing the buffer and procedure cache is one way to ensure a consistent starting point for your baseline and your optimized code.
It's worth noting that on a production server, it's an unusual situation for a query to run from a cold cache. I agree with Mark's comment about running the tests again from a warm cache.
I generally try to test performance optimizations using a batch of queries - Ideally a realistic workload, possibly something captured from the live system or a good constructed sample. Before starting each batch (not each individual query), I would clear the buffer & procedure cache. I'd then run the same batch again without clearing the cache. This is done for the baseline and then again for the optimized code. I like to repeat the test for multiple different batches. This is mostly to avoid the chance that an edge-case query was run as the 1st query in the batch, polluting the cache with an inefficient query plan.
I prefer to use SQL Trace to capture the statistics I'm interested in - Reads, Writes, CPU and Duration. SQL: Batch Completed and/or RPC:Completed events are sufficient depending on the mechanism used to run the batches. I'll then aggregate the data, displaying the results in a spreadsheet. As well as showing total/average duration etc, I also like to include a pivot on the duration group. e.g. 0-500ms,500ms-1sec,1-2sec...etc.
Repeating query executions and/or running a large number of batches can reduce the impact of random anomalies occurring that interfere with the results. Ideally it's best to test in a sterile environment, on a system similar to your production server, using a backup of your production database.
It can take a while to run these sorts of tests, but it can be worth it. Assuming you've optimized a query without proper testing can be a dangerous thing. Maybe the query picked up an inefficient query plan due to parameter sniffing and you haven't really optimized anything. This is one of the reasons it's useful to start from a cold cache to ensure fair testing. We can repeat the test again to get some more realistic/best case scenario results.
I like to use realistic workloads to test performance optimizations to make sure I haven't optimized 1% of the calls to the query and made the other 99% slower.
This sort of testing is generally the last step in my optimization process - proving that my changes have a positive impact on performance. Prior to that I'll generally work with a much smaller set of query calls. I'll analyze query plans using SQL Sentry Plan explorer and profile queries executions with more invasive profiler traces (e.g. at statement level to look inside a stored procedures execution. I also capture other useful data like re-compilations etc). Once I've got a handle on the performance issue, I'll work on solutions to it. Testing on a small scale will give me a good idea how effective the performance solution(s) are. Testing on a larger scale gives me a nice set of stats either proving that the solution works or telling me to go back to the drawing board.


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Eli Lehrer wishes the National Trust for Historic Preservation would get out of everybody's way.
While nobody disputes that certain areas do deserve preservation or the Trust has done good work in protecting them them [sic], many places on the 2012 list have little to do with actual history and much to do with a busy-body attitude that seeks to diminish private property rights and waste tax dollars on dubious "preservation" efforts.
Judging by his op-ed, I think Lehrer's main criterion for whether a site merits protection is that it be deemed worthy and interesting by none other than Eli Lehrer:
Many courthouses in rural Texas (another item on the list of "national treasures") are in poor shape but it's not clear why they're of any national significance — most have hosted nothing beyond workaday civil and criminal trials and few are architecturally distinguished. There's no reason why Texas taxpayers should do what the trust wants and shovel millions more into "protecting" them if their own counties don't see a value in doing so. Likewise, there's no reason why a building that once housed a gym where boxer Joe Frazier trained is of any importance at all: while Frazier himself does have importance to sports history, it's not typical or expected to preserve sports figures' practice sites so tourists can visit them. They just aren't very interesting. The same goes for utterly ordinary corrugated steel warehouses in the Port of Los Angles and an unexceptional small town in Ohio. Nothing truly historic happened in either place.
Personally, I might give his opinions more weight if he wasn't such a sloppy and uninformed commentator. Citing the controversy over proposed housing at Princeton Battlefield, Lehrer claims that "local busybodies still want to prevent Princeton University from building some housing in any area near the battlefield because they believe, among other things, that soldiers en route to the battle marched across it." In fact, it's not Princeton University that wants to build the housing, but the Institute for Advanced Study, which is completely independent of the university.
More importantly, the Princeton Battlefield Society has identified the portion of the field in question as core battlefield land. Indeed, the very PBS document to which Lehrer links in his "local busybodies" quote identifies the parcel as such. Is it too much to ask that an op-ed writer read a little about the subject of his piece, especially that he read the documents to which he refers directly?
Lehrer also writes that the Princeton battlefield is "already a state park." The implication that historic sites are out of harm's way once they receive designation as a park betrays ignorance of a seemingly obvious point. Such sites do not contain all the historic ground relating to a particular event. They only contain what preservationists and agencies have been able to acquire. The existence of a battlefield park only means that part of a given battlefield has obtained protected status, not that all the ground on which the battle took place is within the boundaries of a park. Even land within park boundaries is not immune from the traffic congestion, ruined viewsheds, and other problems that come with encroachment. In some cases, parcels of historic parks aren't even contiguous, but instead are separated by other parcels of land over which park agencies have no control.
Preservation doesn't have to be all or nothing. We can have informed, reasonable discussions about this stuff—but we can't do it with people who don't really know what they're talking about.


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William Jason Sprague, age 30, of Texarkana, Texas died June 15, 2013, in a local hospital.
Services with police honors will be 10 A.M. Wednesday at First Baptist Church, Texarkana with Kevin Shutte officiating. Graveside services will be 2 P.M. Wednesday at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Malvern, Arkansas. Arrangements are with Texarkana Funeral Home, Texas
Visitation will be 5 to 8 P.M. Tuesday at First Baptist Church, Texarkana.
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Ex-Sepracor chief to lead startup biotech
Mark Iwicki, previously president and CEO of Sepracor, has signed on as chief executive officer with oncology-focused pipeline biopharma Blend Therapeutics. This news comes in tandem with the announcement that Blend has secured $16 million in Series B financing. Blend received $2.8 million last year when the company was first established.
The Massachusetts-based firm hopes to deliver a safer platinum-based chemotherapy through a delivery vehicle with nanoparticles.
In an interview with Xconomy, Iwicki said the funds will allow the company to operate through drug development for another two years, during which time Blend hopes to file an investigational drug application with the FDA.
Iwicki joined Sepracor in 2007 as EVP, chief commercial officer. Two years later, when Sepracor was acquired by Dainippon Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals and became Sunovion, Iwicki took the reins as chief executive officer.
The acquisition was motivated by Dainippon Sumitomo's desire to bring schizophrenia treatment Latuda to market by way of Sepracor's existing CNS marketing and sales infrastructure. Latuda won approval in October 2010 amidst a crowded antipsychotic therapeutic category.In our October, 2006 issue MM&M listed Iwicki as one of our '15 on the rise.' One of his nominators aptly noted, "He is going to run a drug company one day."


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Catherine Blassingame Allen
Catherine Blassingame Allen, 40 beloved mother, daughter and sister passed from this life into God's loving care on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010.Catherine was born Feb. 26, 1970, in Lubbock, Texas to Larry and Jeanna Blassingame. She married James G. Allen on Aug. 14, 1993. Catherine graduated from Angelo State University in 1997 with a B.S. in Special Learning and Development. Most recently, Catherine taught school at Blackwell CISD. She was a talented, devoted teacher who touched the lives of her students and was widely respected by her colleagues. She was named Teacher of the Year in 2004 by the Blackwell PTO in recognition of her outstanding performance and received the Grand Lodge of Texas, A.F.V.A.M. Mirabeau B. Lamar Award of Excellence in 2006 from Hylton Lodge No. 884 for excellence in teaching.Catherine was preceded in death by grandparents, J.W. and Lodena Blassingame and H. L. and Ina Scott.She is survived by her loving husband, James G. Allen and the joys of her life, her son Benjamin James, 13 and daughter, Sarah Kate, 9. Also left to cherish her memory are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Blassingame; brother, Jason; nephews Brett and J. W. Blassingame; niece, Gabby Rico; mother and father-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. James Allen; two sisters-in-law Courtney Wardlaw and husband Jon and Brooke Davis; nieces Mackenzie Davis and Kendall Davis; nephews, Jacob Wardlaw and Jackson Davis; her beloved aunts, uncles and cousins and her Blackwell ISD family.The family suggests memorials be made to First Baptist Church of Colorado or FCCLA at Blackwell CISD.Catherine was devoted to her family and leaves a legacy of lover to her husband, children and all who knew her."We love you Mom."Visitation was held Saturday, Nov. 20, from 5-7 p.m. Funeral was held Sunday, Nov. 21, at 3 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Colorado City.


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Merced County authorities are trying to figure out how to use green waste at the Billy Wright Road Landfill outside of Los Banos.
The material has not been composted since September 2012 due to environmental requirements. Until mid-2013, green waste was being placed in the landfill. Since August 2013, green waste has been used to cover the landfill instead of soil.
Yet residents of Los Banos and the Westside have continued to pay for composting. Los Banos residents pay $36.01 a month for a 96-gallon blue recycling cart, a 96-gallon green waste cart and a 64-gallon gray trash can. The price is $54.02 if the 54-gallon trash can is replaced with a 96-gallon gray can. The prices do not break down by individual can, however residents pay about $12 per can. For the 23 months since composting ended, each resident has paid about $276.
Now lower-cost composting and turning green waste into fuel are being explored.
According to Merced County Regional Waste Management Authority officials, industrial processes like mulching and composting create volatile organic compounds, like nitrates, that must be kept from ground and surface water. Keeping Billy Wright compliant with state regulations is too expensive for such a small landfill, waste management officials say.
The county's second landfill on Highway 59 near Merced is four times the size of Billy Wright and does compost green waste.
Jerry Lawrie, environmental research manager at the Regional Waste Management Authority, said that a "lower-tech" method of composting is being tested at the Highway 59 Landfill.
"We want to reduce use of grinders and change when we compost raw materials," Lawrie said. "We want to reduce heavy equipment 30 (percent) to 40 percent."
Lawrie said if the experiment works the method could be used at Billy Wright, allowing composting to resume. However, he said, composting at Billy Wright is not a top priority.
"It's not dead; it's just not alive," Lawrie said.
He said the most pressing matter is balancing revenues and expenditures.
Brooks Stayer, director of the Regional Waste Management Authority, ordered tarps or green waste to cover garbage each nightto save on landfill space, which can be sold to other cities.
Stayer agreed that finances are the top concern.
"We're dealing with a $50 million deficit, a $20 million environmental liability and a $30 million bond. (And) we were losing $700,000 a year," Stayer said.
He said it will be three more months to determine if the low-tech composting approach will work. In the meantime, Stayer said he plans to ask the Merced County Association of Governments to let him apply for a $4 million grant from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. The money would be used for a machine that turns organic material into fuel. The deadline to apply is this month.
Merced County Supervisor Jerry O'Banion said he does not believe recycling fees should be refunded to residents.
"Whether it's composted or not, it's being recycled," O'Banion said, "the green waste decomposes, the dirt doesn't."
Lawrie said the recycling fees in place do not cover the costs. He said residents should be paying about $30 for recycling, but the MCAG Board of Directors declined to impose such an increase.
Stayer said he is also not in favor of a refund.
"I would say no," Stayer said. "If we didn't do what we're doing, it would cost you more. We are beneficially using it (green waste)."
O'Banion spoke with the Enterprise after his initial telephone interview and said the city of Los Banos, not MCAG, would make the decision of whether a refund is handed out to the city's citizens.


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